A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

We've all grown up dreaming of aliens landing on the Earth or laser beaming across the sky; well, either way, it's sci-fi and ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has focused on subtle whispers in the cosmic noise, the faint, ...

For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...

The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence would rank alongside fire and writing in the story of our species, yet a growing group of researchers warns that such a moment might arrive not ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

golden record that can decipher data with hints of mathematics and chemistry. It is hoped that it will become a kind of common language between the unknown extraterrestrial civilizations. A novel ...